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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. Prospects were confused over how the marketplace worked and the sales team struggled to explain it.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

In 2010, he joined DGF Investimentos, one of the top VC firms in Brazil. In 2010, he became one of the Co-Founders of Warehouse Investimentos, a prominent Brazilian VC company. He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing.

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Glossary: 117 software-led payments terms to know

Payrix

They underwrite and onboard the sub-merchants and provide them with the products and services required to process electronic payments. Chargeback reduction service Screens presentments and chargebacks and returns certain invalid items to the acquirer or issuer, as appropriate.

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5 Secrets to Moving Upmarket – How the Right Sales Tax Technology Can Support SaaS Growth

SaaStr

Software as a Service is currently taxable in about one-third of US states, and that number is only growing as outdated state sales tax laws slowly catch up with the way we’re doing business today. . For example, you hire a developer to move you over to an ERP like NetSuite. Understand your sales tax responsibilities.

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The Hottest Startup Sectors in 2016

Tom Tunguz

of the market in 2010 to more than 7.5% Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014. Marketplaces have rocketed from a 2.5% of the series A market in 2015.

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Andrew Chen on finding the “fresh powder” in growth

Intercom, Inc.

When I think about growth and Dropbox, Drew Houston’s classic talk from the 2010 Startup Lessons Learned Conference immediately comes to mind. Switching to a different service is something that takes a lot of effort. I saw both sides of the marketplace, which was a lot of fun. You joined on the supply side, correct?

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? I didn’t want to pay for this service.” I mean, this is quite new.